First and foremost, thanks to everyone that entered!
We had a tough time judging the competition as the entries were of such high quality. It took a lot of repeated listening to decide between our personal
favourites! This, combined with our busy schedules, meant it took a lot longer for us to get our votes together than we thought it would, so we would like
to apologise to everyone for the delay!

Congratulations to these lucky 4!! (You will be contacted as soon as possible, and we'll distribute the prizes among you.) Like Santa Claus but
with more freaky noises! The winners will also be asked to describe their creation methods in more detail, so check back soon for more cool info
and random factoids...

in winning order:1st place
joseph : metrosmexual ( )

2nd place
javier rubio montero : plancha3 ( )

3rd place
psynus : still dope ( )

4th place
laurent PARANTHOEN : hexasmart ( )

Round 1 :: Honorable Mentions

in alphabetical order:

Andy Yakovlev : Recently I Discovered Transistors In My Head ( )

annihilist : catacthonic ( )

Bitmud : SMEXtroverted ( )

enon sci : Depressive Nae ( )

George Yohng : Swingin' Smartelectronix ( )

Jan Kunc : Smarties On Trip ( )

Joseph Misra : PPKNK ( )

Julien Neto (recording as Mondfabrik) : Dazed ( )

Knut Andreas Ruud : Smartelectronix gets lost in Upland ( )

Michael Durand : Bug It ( )

Michael Norrell aka GPK, Warbug : FLEX DATA ( )

Michael P. Goodman ( mpg~ ) : Cosmotronic Introduction ( )

noah sasso : pyramid people ( )

proem : proem - smexican standoff ( )

Remo Rickli : Flutigal (a flute kinda digital :-) ( )

Steven West : The Tragic Deaths Of Insects ( )

Weaselfriends : Mediterranean Sunshine ( )

Special Mention

Special mention goes to Kerrydan 's track, Modest Electronics, because even though we had to disqualify it, it made us laugh like maniacs, especially Bram.
Kyle, if you're reading, you're a bastard, but we love you.

the unknown one (everyone calls me David DeBaecke though) : the thoughts were a puzzle...

TU_liPs : 0xdeads0und

uldis kirsis (zucha) : cat patriot

Wayne Jacobs a.k.a FERALCATSCAN : Poème Tumultueux

Judging method

In every round every -actively participating- member casts his vote. The member gets as many
points to distribute as there are tracks in that round. How he distributes these points is up to
him, but a maximum score per track is set. Once every member has voted the scores are tallied up
and the top 20% tracks (the actual percentage depends on the amount of tracks) get selected for
the next round. If the current round results in the exact same 4 'winners' as the previous round
voting is ended and those 4 are 'selected'. If the result isn't the same we have another round of
voting and keep on going until we end up with 4 winners.
This complex multi-round voting system has been chosen to allow people to adjust their voting
behaviour and thus eliminate any unwanted side effects.